Definition of Loxodonta

1. Noun. A genus of Elephantidae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Loxodonta
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Elephantidae, Family Elephantidae
Member holonyms: African Elephant, Loxodonta Africana

Lexicographical Neighbors of Loxodonta

Lower Saxony
Lower Silesian
Lower Sorbian
Lower Wendish
Lowestoft
Lowland Scots
Lowlander
Lowlands
Lowlands of Scotland
Lowry
Lowsley tractor
Loxia curvirostra
Loxitane
Loxodonta (current term)
Loxodonta africana
Loxoma
Loxomataceae
Loxosceles
Loxostege
Loxostege similalis
Loxotrema ovatum
Loya Jirga
Loyalist Volunteer Force
Loyang
Loyola
Lozal
Lozier
Lozère

Literary usage of Loxodonta

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fossil Elephantoids: from the Hominid-Bearing Awash Group, Middle Awash by Jon Kalb (2007)
"Molars of the two living elephant genera, the Asiatic Elephas and the African Loxodonta, were originally ... Loxodonta," appears to be ancestral to L. ..."

2. Catalogue of Carnivorous, Pachydermatous, and Edentate Mammalia in the by John Edward Gray (1869)
"Loxodonta. Lamina of the teeth with lozenge-shaped crown. ... BM Loxodonta africana, Gray, List Mamm. BM 1843; Gerrard, Cat. ..."

3. Life-histories of African Game Animals by Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Heller (1914)
"AFRICAN ELEPHANT Loxodonta Loxodonta F. Cuvier, 1827, Zool. ... Although Cuvier established the genus Loxodonta for the African elephants more than eighty ..."

4. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"Sections of skull of young and adult African elephant, Loxodonta africana, ... Molar tooth patterns of African elephant, Loxodonta africana, ..."

5. A History of Land Mammals in the Western Hemisphere by William Berryman Scott (1913)
"Molar of the African Elephant (Loxodonta africanus) showing the oblique the Spaces between the mode of wear. Heavy black lines indicate enamel ridges are ..."

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